Opening in limited release Nov. 14, Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild & Lovely are the two debut fiction features of performance artist Josephine Decker. Though the transition between media is not always smooth, the results of Decker’s foray into film are often breathtaking and always provoking.
The twin films are not explicitly linked by story; they resemble variations on a theme. The first, Butter on the Latch, is a free-form improvisation, ... Read More

Come on, we never got out! They left us!
If you feel like your best friends have been on vacation in a remote desert without wifi ever since the first season of Broad City on Comedy Central wrapped up, then consider this trailer for the Jan. 14 premiere a sweet postcard that took four days for Abbi to buy, three days for Ilana to write, and a month for them to mail. We can’t wait to have these ladies back in our lives! Until then, reruns and ... Read More

If you haven’t watched the wonderful web series, High Maintenance, then get to watching because a new cycle of episodes are coming out next week!
High Maintenance is a web series featured on Vimeo, that follows a nameless cannabis dealer deliver to his clients. Katja Blichfeld, who is an Emmy award winning casting director for 30 Rock, and her husband and star of the show Ben Sinclair, created, directed, and wrote High Maintenance.
Taking place ... Read More

The latest and last installment of the MAKERS documentary series, “Women in Politics,” airs tonight at 9/8c on PBS. Narrated by Alfre Woodard, the continuing struggle for female representation in politics is personified in the stories of Shirley Chisholm, Olympia Snowe, and Hillary Clinton, among others.
Just in time to make us feel really satisfied about voting today, right? (Go vote.)
MAKERS rewrites women into history -- ... Read More

Since its release on Tuesday, the YouTube video, “10 hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman has over 16,000,000 views. Joining with filmmaker Robert Bliss, Hollaback!, an organization that aims to end street harassment, created the video in an effort to bring attention to the street harassment many women experience every day.
"But what about men??" said the men who felt left out. Funny Or Die News decided to conduct an experiment to see what happens to ... Read More

Phoebe Robinson is taking on dick pics. The comedian behind the Blaria blog and podcast debuted a new video at the monthly live comedy showcase she hosts, Blaria Live. In September, we were delighted by her Girlfriend Intervention spoof with Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams. For her new video, Phoebe took issue with the 21st-century version of shining armor and a white horse -- courtship via dick pic.
The sold-out crowd at Blaria Live cheered -- ... Read More

Zombies create a wonderful commentary on society, survival, and our mortality because they appeal to our fears of widespread viruses, and how much potential we have as individuals in a society to combat a widespread infection (cough Ebola cough). All of the following movies mentioned fall mostly into the typical Hollywood zombie movie premise, meaning it involves a virus. This list of zombie movie queens contain strong, independent, in control… oh, and ... Read More

Mike Tyson is getting a new TV show. Why? Because, as he recently told USA Today, he “didn’t have nothing better to do.”
The new animated series “Mike Tyson Mysteries” premiered last night on Adult Swim. The show is a cartoon series that heavily resembles the style of Scooby-Doo, and focuses on Tyson along with a slew of other characters, including a crude and alcoholic pigeon, solving mysteries.
The Upright Citizens Brigade, a sketch ... Read More

For women, there is a science and an art to surviving horror films (Carol J. Clover’s 1992 Men, Women, and Chainsaws can be your textbook). One must be curious and observant -- you heed the subtle whiff of danger when others don’t notice the stench. One must also be intelligent, resourceful, and scrappy regardless of stature. It definitely helps to be sexually reserved and to have a gender-neutral name. If you can successfully embody all of ... Read More

Spoiler alert: This Saturday Night Live skit rests on the crutch of a fat joke. And a race joke. And another fat joke. But beyond the crude and crass (and actually not funny) one-liners, Kate McKinnon and SNL guest star Jim Carrey’s Sia “Chandelier” dance-off is sort of redeeming. (Is it too late to steal their costume idea?)
In case you missed it, here is Lena Dunham's own "Chandelier" dance from Late Night with Seth Myers earlier ... Read More